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Why specialist teams slow product delivery down
At WebExpo 2025, Karel Smutný’s talk, “The path to end-to-end teams”, challenged one of the most common assumptions in product development: that organising people into specialist teams makes organisations more efficient. Karel opened with a simple room survey. Most attendees worked on large-scale products, organised around specific components or functions. But when asked if this […]
WebExpo pre-show: 4 weeks of honest feedback and serious prep
It seems simple. Share a complete presentation to an eagerly awaiting audience. A polished story. Clean slides. A confident delivery from an expert clearly loving the chance to share their knowledge. What you don’t see is everything that happens before that moment. At WebExpo, we have spent a lot of time thinking about that gap. […]
Your team belongs at WebExpo. Here is the proof.
The awkward budget conversation You want to go. Your colleagues want to go. But someone needs to approve the spend, and “it’ll be really good, I promise” rarely survives a finance review. Here is the thing: most people pitch conferences as “I’ll learn stuff.” That is true, but it barely scratches the surface. After 16 […]
From pixels to futures: 7 must-see design talks at WebExpo 2026
We’ve spent years optimising interfaces, building design systems, and refining user flows. And then, almost overnight, a new question landed on every designer’s desk: what happens when the product talks back? Designers are no longer just responsible for mockups, they’re shipping entire features. Developers ask about user flows before they write a single line of […]
From yes/no to “walk me through”: Nikki Anderson’s TEDW framework for better questions
Stop asking, start listening: The power of the TEDW model in user research and beyond At WebExpo 2025, Nikki Anderson delivered a focused and practical talk on one of the most underestimated skills in product development and business: asking better questions. Titled Turn curiosity into data gold with TEDW questions, the session unpacked a deceptively […]
Building payment systems without betting the business on one provider
Payments are promises, not money. Payments sit at the centre of almost every digital business, yet they remain widely misunderstood. At WebExpo 2025, Alvaro Duran Barata, senior software engineer at Happening and formerly in the fintech tribe at Kiwi.com, delivered a detailed and uncompromising talk on why payment systems fail and how engineers can design […]